File:Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the library of George John, earl Spencer (1814) (14586850070).jpg

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Title: Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ... library of George John, earl Spencer
Year: 1814 (1810s)
Authors: Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834 Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847 John Rylands Library
Subjects: Althorp (Northampton, Northamptonshire) Incunabula Rare books Printing
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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From tt- Original Fainting br Rembrandt, in the Tofscfsion of Earl Spencer, at Althor: IcnJrn. Fuhlishfil tW the JifvfTynihdin, 182C. I THE LIBRARY. i.M as a Drawing Room; where the company assemble on risingfrom the dinner table. It is now scarcely twenty-five years since this room con-tained the ichole of his Lordships library; and that portion ofit which, in the engraving, is seen through the pillars, was setapart for the reception of Editiones Principes, and Booksprinted in the Fifteenth Century. Here it was that Gibbondescribed hunself as having exhausted a whole morning (incompany with the noble owner) among the first editions ofCicero.* Were that celebrated historian now alive, and en-gaged in a similar pursuit, he would find the toil of investigationa httle more severe; as the niunber in that class of Books (pre-served for the last twenty years at Spencer House) is prodigi-ously increased. The shelves, as seen in the view, and thenoccupied by early printed volumes, now contain

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